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MSNBC.com popped up on my Twitter the other day with this article. It was sad, yet confirming that we are on the right path with our Herbalife business. This is exactly why we do what we do! Our mission is to help put and end to the current situation, and to educate and prevent future generations from going down the same path.
Obesity care may cost twice previous estimates! see (MSNBC.COM)
17 percent!!! of U.S. medical costs is due to obesity, new study says
By MIKE STOBBE
ATLANTA — Nearly 17 percent of U.S. medical costs can be blamed on obesity, according to new research that suggests the nation’s weight problem may be having close to twice the impact on medical spending as previously estimated.
One expert acknowledged that past estimates likely low-balled the costs and said the new study — which places obesity-related medical costs at around $168 billion — probably is closer to the truth.
“I think these are the most recent and perhaps statistically sound estimates that have come out to date,” said Kenneth Thorpe, a health policy researcher at Emory University who has focused on the cost of health care.
The new research was done by John Cawley of Cornell University and Chad Meyerhoefer of Lehigh University. It was released this week by the National Bureau of Economic Research, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization.
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